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Assorted Links (29 Dec 2009)
29th December 2009
1/ Paul Krugman on The Big Zero (Comment piece in the New York Times) “From an economic point of view, I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true.” More here
2/ How economics managed to make amends - Arvind Subramanian (FT comment page) “The avoidance of the Greatest Depression that could so easily have happened in 2009 is an outcome the world owes to economics; at the least, it is the discipline’s atonement for allowing the crisis of 2008 to unfold” More here
3/ Tim Harford - The battle for the soul of microfinance (FT) “Multinational banks at last see microfinance as a profit opportunity” More here
4/ Stephanie Flanders - Intriguing economic questions for 2010 “What are the most intriguing economic questions for 2010? Here are my top four.” More here
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.